Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 94, 9 February 1910 — Page 4

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OPTIMISM. Mr. Henry C. Frick is a prophet of prosperity, an optimist who sees no reason for doubt as to the soundness of national conditions. His talk at Augusta, Ga., yesterday should be carefully studied by all who are now noting the signs of the times with reference to the financial and industrial outlook. Nothing, says Mr. Frick, can Kill the progress of this country save the lack of courage of its own people. Fear has been the cause of practically all the panics from which the United States has ever suffered. During the great stringency of 1893, when banks were failing by the score and industrial corporations were closing their doors, there was no lack of money, that is to say, of potential money. Even when the clearing house certificates were the chief medium of exchange in New York and currency was at a high premium, there was money enough within an hour's reach to have met every need of the time and put every institution on a sound basis of absolute solvency. But this money was tied up, not in investments, or even in speculation, but in safe deposit vaults and domestic tea caddies and stocking heels. For the time being it was simply a lot of printed paper and stamped metal without value, intrinsic or relative. It has been said so often as to become axiomatic that panics are the result of a destruction of confidence, and if enough people of prominence will continue to declare that time3 are bad and that conditions are unwholesome and that institutions are unsound and that pernicious legislation is contemplated, the public will finally believe. After all, it is "the man in the street," the man without official power of position, the man of small hold

ings and of only individual importance

in the general scheme, upon whom

rests the. complex social structure. It is he who finally determines whether banks remain open and mills continue

to operate. As soon as he loses con

fidence, fails in courage and begins to curtail expenditures and to hide his

money, the process of panic is begun. For every pessimist there are in na ture many optimists. More men be

lieve that things are right and the future bright than that conditions are unpropitious. It is the duty of every citizen who feels content and hopeful

and whose confidence is strong to ex

press himself. Unhappily, the croak

era usually make the loudest noise, and it is important that those who hold

differently, who see through clearer glasses, should exert themselves to

drown the chorus of pessimism and doubt which is raised, often for self-

ish reasons and with a deliberate de

sire to bring about misfortune for the

sake of profiting from the ruin it en

tails. Washington Star.

J urns ( other ed m From Far and Near

Our Boys Not Feminized.

From the Philadelphia Press. There have been Englishmen who criticised us mercilessly, but justly; and no American said nay. The American people are not so swollen with pride as to be blind to their faults. No one likes to be told of a deficiency, but when it assumes me character of a national trait and is emarked beyond our borders it might do us good to be told of it. Yet no one man or no one people will be falsely accused without lesonting it. There is an obscure Englishman, by the name of Alexander Francis, who has written a book on "Americans,' and in it he makes the statement that our American boys, under co-education, are growing "ladylike," and becoming "an inferior copy of the girls, winning a girl's gentleness and sensitiveness, but not the proper

THE VALUE OF FRANCHISES. The action of the Council In regard to the franchise for the manufacture of artificial gas scarcely needs comment because it reflects the public sentiment of Richmond. If it shows nothing else, it causes one to suspect that it indicates a knowledge gained by long experience as to the value of franchises.

Up in New York state they are having something to say about franchises: "The property of all public service corporations as well as the value of their special franchises should be assessed by the state tax commission, is the opinion of the commission expressed in its annual report to the legislature." Such is the leading paragraph of a news article in the New York Sun, dated Albany, Feb. 6th. Not to go into a discussion of New York's difficulties (we have enough of our own) it is none the less true that in that domain of aggrandizement, the zone of special privilege the people have by some chance learned that a franchise is worth something. The mode of ascertaining the value of a franchise may be a matter of debate, but we have until lately thought them valueless in Indiana.

"Good will," "unearned increment," "intangible valuation," "going value" call it what you will, the fact remains that the right to do business is made more valuable from year to year by the growth of the town. Labor then for the increase of business of the town by attracting more people to it! Hold Fall Festivals, open up new districts for homes and you will thereby add to the value of the franchise! The public service corporation is not responsible for the increase of its extensions. The educative work of teaching the use of water and gas is not an item in Richmond.

Roiled down, it amounts to monopoly taxation. Private levy for private gain is abhorent to those who believe in the principle of representation in taxation. That is why we have insisted that the people should have some means of participating in the profits; that if they eventually wish to buy, they must have a suitable and real means cf doing so, and that they shall not be exploited by a franchise which offers no guarantee of competition.

The real value of franchises is becoming more clear in the people's minds. Council is to be congratulated. It should be an object lesson to those who still cling to the "vested rights" idea which is in its essence, monopoly taxation.

strength of either sex." Mr. Francis is afraid that we may be lacking, because of this, in "the splendid virility" of the Anglo-Saxon strain. It mght be suggested to this Briton that the American lad has displayed enough virility to beat his own countrymen at any game he proposes barring two, cricket and rowing. And these are especially English. The American boy is distinctly not effeminated, but is the most athletic and healthy in all the world.

The Return to the Land. From the Nashville Banner. An hegira of all impecunious city dwellers who feel the pinch of high prices of food products to the farms, would, of course, be an impracticable movement and one productive of much inconvenience and probable suffering if it should be attempted. The men of the skilled trades and those who

are employed in the conduct of business establishments at moderate salaries will continue in their present occupations despite the high price of meat and other food necessaries. Their living is better assured than it would be as farm laborers or as farmers, for it is few who have the money to buy or equip farms. Nevertheless the cry "back to the land" is not without its potency and the demand for more farmers and better farmers is the sure and only permanent solution of the trouble that comes of a lack of production.

The Lesson of Paris. From the Chicago Evening Post. When an American city is overwhelmed by the waters of the earth we sense the disaster, but we do not regard it as something outside the ken of our national experience. We are near enough to the primeval to accept the acts of nature with something of the fatalism of the trappers and voyageurs who used to range the woods and streams of our virgin country. But when the flood sweeps down upon a great continental capital the effect upon us is far greater. We feel that a civilization so ancient, a city that has lived upon its island in the Seine since the century before the Christian era began, must have developed some tough fiber of resistance, some mere bulwark of ap,e, that would protect and save it. The desperate strait which Paris faces today teaches differently. After all. the metropolis of Europe is no more powerful against the mighty forces of the elements than is the little mining town of Cherry, 111.

TWINKLES

(By Philander Johnson)

Natural Selection. "How did you attain your eminent postion?" asked the scientis. "Natural selection," said Senator Sorghum. "You mean that you are specially fitted by your ancestry." "No. Nothing like that. I just naturally selected the offices I wanted and went after them."

The Drop. 'Tis not the falling mercury That agitates the soul. It is the constant cruel ebb Down cellar in the coal.

Ungenerous Lavishness. "Your former husband never complained about the alimony!" "No," answered Mrs. Flimgilt," h.j was brute enough to say his mottc was 'freedom at any cost.' "

"Sometimes it pays to be slow-goin'," said Uncle Eben. "De faster you trav els de harder you bumps if dar's a collision."

Apprehensive of Boredom. "Why do you enjoy playing bridge,'' said the superior person. "It absolutely prohibits conversation." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. 'I believe that's why I like it."

Fiery Tributes. Dem meteors is drappin' Promisc'ous f'um de sky; Dey's long of dem all comets Dat come a-swishin' by. I ax de white folks 'bout 'em; Dey's mystified foh sho. I 'speck dem's chunks o' glory. A-drappin' here below! Dem comets been a-travelin' Among de stars up yon, A'studyin' of 'em keerful. An' when dey gaze upon Dis earth whah we is llvin," An' when dey sees our ways, Dey shows deir 'preciation By th'owin' us bouquets.

Still a Luxury. From the Toledo Blade. Attention has been called to the fact that the price of admission to the nickel theaters has not advanced. But even that may happen just as soon as the nickel theater is regarded as a household necessity.

Not Selling as Much. From the Pittsburg Gazette Times. The beef trust put up prices one cent a pound yesterday, just as an object lesson. There is no profit in it.

Information Needed. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. If Chemist Wiley will add to his information on how to tell when an egg is fresh, how to get them he will fill the bill.

Swear Off. From the Kansas City Journal. The cocktail, having gotten a number of politicians in bad, is now figurins prominently in the divorce news.

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Prices of all living increased, the only exception, Mrs. Austin's pancake flour. Same old price at all grocers.

MASONIC CALENDAR. Wednesday, Feb. 9th Webb Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting, Master Mason degree. Refreshments. Thursday, Feb. 10. Wayne Council No. 10, R. & S. M. Work in the degrees. Friday, Feb. 11 King Soloman's Chapter. No. 4 E.A. JL Stated meet-ins.

Cures indigestion It relieves stomach misery, sour stomach, belching, and cures all stomach dis ease, or money back. Large box of tab-

eta, bo cents. Druggists in au to'

A Double Hold. Miss Moonlite Er let me hold the reins, please. Mr. Bash phul What will 1 do then? Miss Moonlite You might hold the holder of the reins. Boston Herald.

GREAT LOVE STORIES of HISTORY By Albert Payson Terhune

New York Belle Weds American Diplomat

ROBERT EMMET AND SARAH CURRAN

A Patriot and His Love.

(Copyright by the Author.) "My love, Sarah! I hoped to be a prop around which your affections might have clung and which would never have been shaken. But a rude blast has snapped it and they have fallen over a grave." Thus, in 1803, wrote Robert Emmet, from his prison cell. The letter was cut short by the arrival of the guard that was to conduct him to the scaffold. His last words and thoughts were for Sarah Curran, the lovely girl who shared with Ireland the devotion of his great heart. A biographer tells in the following lines how utterly the young patriot's affection was reciprocated by Miss Curran: "She loved him with the disinterested fervor of a woman's first and early love. When every worldly maxim arrayed itself against him, when blasted in fortune and disgrace and danger darkened around his name, she loved him the more ardently for his very sufferings." Robert Emmet was an Irishman of excellent family. From boyhood he showed every promiae of a brilliant future. At Trinity college, Dublin,

where he was a fellow-student and chum of the poet.

Tom Moore, he distinguished himself by a veritable genius for oratory. He also became enthusiastic over the "United Irishmen" movement and an earnest worker for his oppressed country's freedom. On account of his ardent patriotism he was expelled from college In 1798. Thence the 20-year-old lad went to the continent of Europe, where he remained for two years. Returning then secretly to Ireland, he threw himself heart and soul into the plan for a general Irish revolution. On July 23, 1803, he and his colleagues attempted to seize the arsenal and castle of Dublin. The soldiers of the garrison beat back their assailants and the uprising failed. Emmet escaped to the Wicklow mountains, where he bided his time until he could cross safely to France. Finally his arrangements for flight were completed. But before turning his back forever on his native land he resolved to run the terrible risk of capture by seeking a last interview with Miss Curran. His friends advised against such a rash act. But

love was stronger than prudence. The chance for safe escape passed and Emmet was arrested. He was tried for high treason and condemned to death. At his trial he spoke so eloquently in protest against Ireland's wrongs that the English judge himself was moved to tears. Emmet wrote to Miss Curran, and, according to the story, offered a jailer his watch and all his money to deliver the letter. Through secret family influence the unhappy girl is said to have secured leave to visit Emmet in his cell the day before his execution. She is also said to have sat in a carriage outside the prison when Emmet came forth to be hanged, and to have kissed her hand in farewell to the gallant youth. After her lover's death Miss Curran found her sorrow still further deepened by her father's attitude toward her. Furious at her devotion to the unfortunate patriot-martyr, Mr. Curran made life so hard for Sarah that she was obliged to leave the shelter of his house. Homeless, loveless, she fell into a melancholy from which nothing could arouse her. Her sufferings excited the pity of Capt. Sturgeon, an army officer. Sturgeon asked her to be his wife. She replied that her heart was dead. -On Sturgeon's assurance that he begged only the right to protect and comfort

her, she consented to marry him. Sturgeon took her

to Sicily, hoping the mild southern climate might restore her shattered health. But the trouble lay too deep for human care to lighten it. Two years later Sarah died literally of a broken heart. By her earlier wish her body was brought back to Ireland for burial. Her fate forms the theme of one of Moore's most beautiful poems. Emmet's body rests in an unmarked grave. For he commanded that no epitaph be carven above his head until Ireland should be free. Yet thousands of pilgrims have gone to gaze on the nameless tomb. Almost the first of these visitors was a slight, dark-haired girl who, two days after Emmet's execution, slipped away, by stealth, from the jealous guardianship of her father and went, under cover of night, to weep beside the last resting place of the man she loved.

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Mrs. William Phillips, wife of the secretary of the American Embassy in London. Mrs. Phillips was Miss Caroline Aster Drayton. daughter of J. Coleman Drayton, of New York. Her father and mother were divorced several years ago, and her father gave her away to her recent wedding which was a brilliant social affair in London. Her mother, while sending her several costly presents, did not attend the cere-monv.

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IS AN ANAESTHETIC For Surgical Practice Quinine Is Said to Equal Best Of Drugs.

KANSAS UNIV. MADE TESTS

Dies From Broken Heart.

Kansas City. Mo., Feb. 9. Out of the fever-infected jungles of the backwoods of Arkansas has come a medical discovery which may revolutionize surgical practice. An anaesthetic, which the faculty of the University of'Kansas Medical college declares is superior to any other in medical knowledge one which throws Btovaine into the class of short lived sensations, and which, they insist, will eliminate cocaine from use as a local anaesthetic is the gift to the world of Dr. Henry Thibault, of Scott, Arkansas. This new anaesthetic is quinine common quinine which has tren used for years as an internal medicine, but which never was known until recently as a pain killer. The most startling claims are made for the new agent. The effect of quinine, when injected locally, lasts for

days, so that if tonsils are removed, or bones are cut from the nose, there Is no after pain for many days. Cocaine loses its power shortly after the operation. Quinine is absolutely safe, as quarts of it may be used without poisonous effect, it is declared. Cocaine has a toxic effect, save in small doses. Quinine hardens the tissues into which it is introduced, preventing hemorrhages after operations. Cocaine does not do this.

All Records Broken llhrum Banlahlnit It hnimatlara All Ovrr Amerlen, l'aprra Say. Hheuma is the best prescription In the world for that painful disease, Klieuniatism, and Loo H. Fih is sellingIt at a lively rate. And whshouldn't he when he. makes th straighforwanl offer that Hheuma cures nheumatism or money back. Surely no intelligent perxon is going to continue to suffer while such a liberal offer is luld out to him. If you suffer from Ilheumatisni. go to Leo If. r Pit? today and get a bottle of Itheuma: take it avcordina; to directions, and notice the quick relief you will get in a few d-iys. Hheuma will drive the poiston from your body and (lire you in a short time. II is the best prescription of a famous physician and is working marvelous cures the country over. 50c a bottle at Leo H. Fihe's, or by mail, prepaid, Hheuma Co.. 1000 West Ave,. Buffalo, X. Y.

The absolute vindication of these claims Las just been announced by Dr. Arthur R. Hertzler, assistant professor of surgery in the University of Kansas Medical college, at Rosedale; Dr. Tord 11. Rogers, of the college dispensary and Dr. Roger U. Prewster, special investigator. The results made public by these doctors are the fruits of six months of experiments in the college hospital and in the hospital at Halstead. Kansas.

Go to the Palace and hear the lecture on the Panama Canal. Toe Long a Look Ahead.' I tell yon." raid the man who trns wearing a last year's Lat. "it's rrctty hard on a fellow to have a wife who never looks ahead." "Oh, I don't know," his companion Fadly replied. 'Sometimes I think there's such a thing as looking ahead too much. Now, take my wife, for instance. She always buys clothes that are two sizes too "large for our boy. so that he can grow Into them next year." "Well, you oughtn't kick on that." "I wouldn't if they ever lasted long enough to be a fit."

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Deadly Firearm. Easing his statement on a series of experiments with the latest pattern of military firearm. Dr. Fessler, of Dresden, says in a recent number of Der Militaer Arzt that in the next great v r the mortality from gunshot wounds will be "frightfully large." He describes one kind of military rifle the missile from which will "not go straight, but will be deflected by the slightest resistance after it strikes the body and will continue on, making a wound at an angle with the one through which it entered the body." The "wounding capacity of the new weapon is many times greater than that of the rifles now in use," and this, he says, "makes it a tangible argument in favor of peace."

CLAIM BIG ESTATE

Coshocton, O., Ieb. 9. An ancient parchment just found by Harry B. Alexander of New Philadelphia, dated June 21, 1731, from agents of Lord Baltimore to William A. Price, conveying land now in the heart of Baltimore, Md., in consideration of eleven pounds sterling, may clear title to the estate the Price heirs claim, valued

new at J 400,000,000.

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